Bottle-wrapper.



HOWARD H. HIGHAM, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

BOTTLE-WAPPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 668,518, dated February 19, 1901.

Application led June 27. 1900. Serial No. 21,802. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern/.-

Be it known that I, HOWARD I-I. HIGHAM, a citizenof the United States, residingin Phila-v delphia, Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in Bottle-Wrappers, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to produce from corrugated paper bottle -wrappers of such character that the peculiar properties of the corrugated paper are utilized in a better Way than in such bottle-Wrappers as now made.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l represents a blank for a corrugated-paper bottle-wrapper made in accordance with my invention, and Fig. 2 is a view 0f the wrapper made from said blank.

Any corrugated sheet of thin material-such as paper, cardboard, wood veneer,or the likeoffers resistance to crushing strain only when said strain is exerted in a line diagonal to the line of corrugations-that is to say, in a line more or less transverse to the rows of arches presented by said corrugations. Thus a corrugated sheet will strongly resist pressure in a line bearing the relation tothe corrugations of the line a a, Fig. l, while it offers little or no resistance to the crushing action exerted in a line parallel withthe corrugations, or as indicated by the line b b, Fig. 1. In making bottle-wrappers of Wood veneer advantage can be taken of this fact by running the corrugations at an angle to the grain of the Wood, since the latter is the in'iiuence controlling the directionrof the bend or fold of the corrugated blank-that is to say, the blank must be bent or folded in a direction parallel with the grain,the direction of the corrugations having no influence whateverin determining such bend or fold. In dealing with corrugated paper, however, the conditions are different, the paper having no grain and the corrugations becoming the factor which controls the direction ot' bend or fold of the blank. Consequentlyinmakingbottle-Wrappers of corrugated paper it has been customary to bend or fold the same on lines parallel with the corrugations and to prevent crushing ofthe corrugations by cementing or otherwise securing a backing-sheet to the corrugated wrapper, thus adding materially to the expense of the wrapper', both by reason of the additional material employed and the extra labor required. I have ascertained by experiment, however, that in bending a sheet of corrugated paper it is possible to twist the same to such an extent that the corrugations l will 'assume an angle in respect to the axial line of the completed wrapper sufficient to.

prevent crushing of said corrugations by any strains upon the same likely to be caused by the pressing of the wrapper against the sides of the bottle. In order, however, that the upper and lower edges of the Wrapper shall be straight and parallel, the upper and lower `edges 2 and 3 of the blank are diagonal in respect to the line of the corrugations-that is to say, they are inclined at an angle other thana right angle thereto, the opposite side edges l and 5 of the blank being by preference parallel with said corrugationsin order to insure the neat tting together of the overlapping edges of the blank in forming the wrapper, as shown in Fig. 2, and the ready maintenance of these overlapping edges in proper place. The securing medium employed may be a number of staples 6, passed through the overlapping portions -of the blank, or said overlapping portions may be cemented together, if desired.

Having thus described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. The within-described blank for a bottlewrapper, said blank consisting of a sheet of corrugated paper having its top and bottom edges diagonal in respect to the line of the corrugations and its opposite side edges parallel with said corrugations, substantially as specified.

2. A bottle -wrapper consisting of a bent and twisted sheet 'of corrugated paper having its corrugations disposed diagonally in respectto the axial line of the wrapper, substantially as specified.

3. A bottle-wrapper consisting of a bent and twisted sheet of corrugated paper having its corrugations disposed diagonally in respect to the axial line of the wrapper and having overlapping edges parallel with said corrugations, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this speciiication in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

AHOWARD H. HIGHAM.

Witnesses:

F. E. BEcHroLD, Jos. H. KLEIN.

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